28 undergraduates provided Q-sort and nonverbal measures of self-acceptance and acceptance of their college. There was a significant correlation between the Q-sort measures but not between the nonverbal measures. The Q-sort and nonverbal measures were not highly correlated, suggesting that the two measures were not tapping exactly the same aspects of personality.
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